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0. P. HAUSS, Jr.

SEEDI'NG' DEVICE.

No. 281,270. Patented July 17, 1883.

M WWENTOR WITNESSES:

4 TTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

CHARLES F. HAUSS, JR, OF BROW NSVILLE, INDIANA.

.SEEDING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,270, dated July 17, 1883.

Application filed February 23, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom zit may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. HAUs's,

Jr., of Brownsville, Union county, Indiana,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seeding Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to the seeding devices used in series on grain-drills, &c., and generally termed force-feed seed-cups.

The nature of the invention will be understood from the description and claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side View, and Fig. 2 a front View, with portions broken away, of a seed-cup embodying. my improvement;

In the drawings, A represents a seed cup or case of common form; B and G, the side walls of the case, D, the usual shaft; E, a perforated disk journaled in the wall 13; F, a thick disk attached to the-shaft, journaled in the case-wall C, and fitted to slide in and out of the case through the wall. G, a series of prongs or pins formed with disk F, and projecting across the case through the perforations in the disk E; H, the usual top curtain of the case to prevent undesired outflow of grain at the top of the cup; I, a cylindrical piece arranged within the circle of pins G, leaving an annular space between its periphery and the pins, and fitted, in the example shown in the drawings, to slide through a central hole in disk E, as it moves with the disk F, to which it is attached; and J, the discharge-lip of the case. K is a gate or cut-off fitted to narrow the stream of grain being fed, and confine it to the width between the wall at the left and the inner end of the disk F at the right, the gate being adjusted as usual with such gates.

The pins G, as exposed within the cup, constitute the grain-feeders, and the degree of their exposed length indicates the quantity of grain fed. The degree of exposure is altered by moving the disk F inward or outward, and the rate of feed thus regulated. The disk with its prongs is rotated by the shaft, and, in the example shown in the drawings, is arranged to be adjusted laterally by means of the shaft to which it is pinned, as is usual with many forms of force-feed seed-wheels. Other means may be utilized to effect the adjustment of the prongdisk in and out of the cup.

The central cylinder I is simply to fill central space and produce annular space within the pin circle. This cylindrical periphery may be secured by other means than a special cylinder, as by the shaft itself, where such sh aft is of prop er form and dimension. The pins G are supported at both ends, it will be noticed, and while they are shown as round, they may have other sectional forms, if desired.

I claim as my invention- A force-feed seed-cup case, a shaft, a perforated disk journaled in one wall of the case, a thick disk provided with pins or prongs fitted to slide in said perforated disk and journaled free for end adjustment in a wall of the case, and a central cylinder located within the pin circle, all combined substantially as specified.

CHARLES F. HAUSS, JR. lVitnesses J onn L. RITER, SABIUEL Rowan. 

